Huntsville gazette., 1887-12-24

u. n. WLL1AMSON, who disappeared
from Massachusetts six years ago, his
ather-in-law missing $4,000 at the same
time, has been caught in Nebraska.
AT Portland, Ore, on the 18th, Fung
Lung Dick and Chez Lung, two Cinnamon,
were convicted of murder in the first de-
gree for killing Lee Yeck in the Chinese
theater on the night Of November 6. The
penalty is death. The sentence will be
pronounced next week
On the 10Th the four coke-strikers on
| trial at Uniontown, Pa, for assaulting the
non union miners at the Jim coke works
during the great strike of last iyear, were
| convicted of riot and conspiracy. Forty
eight others were released for turning
States evidence. The prisoners are all
Hungarians.
On the 10th John W. Chamberlain ives
convicted in the United States District
Court at st. Louis of election frauds.
On the 10Th a disastrous freight train
| collision occurred near Mechanicsville,
Ia, thirty box cars bel ng demolished and
a brakeman killed.
On the 10Th George and John Reeves,
| who, with their father, killed two deputy
sheriffs in Indiana in 1885, were captured
| in Tennessee.
| YIN ohO -OSA SlOH IIcc was GU
| at Bakersfield, Cal, for the murder of
| John Smith, in March, 1888.
| THE scouting party sent to Cienje, AriZ.,
| in search of the Bernal bandits, it is
| learned, found three men, supposed to be-
| long to that band, near Chacala, and shot
| them.
| On the 10Th Chester Bellows was hanged
at Charles City, Ia, for the murder Of
| hic naioa Ha had
to be supported to the gallows, and
as the rope was placed around his neck,
he exclaimed three times: "Please
don't"
On the 10th, at Kenton, O., Charles
Thomas, worthless young fellow, stabbed
to death his niece, Miss Briggs, and
seriously cut his sister-in-law, Mrs. Briggs.
The murder grew out of family quarrel,
which has been brewing for some time.
ON the 10Th a boy named John Ogden,
twelve years old, living in Nebraska City,
| Neb, was dragged to death by COW. He
was driving the COW to the stable, and
tied one end of the rope around his body.
The cow ran away and dragged the boy
over a stony road, going half mile before
it was stopped.
| AT West Chester, Pa, on the 10th, the
explosion of an eighty horse-p power boiler
in the Edison Electric Company's works
cause the death of five persons and the
injury of three others. The boiler was
lifted from the foundations and propelled
thirty feet, passing through the base of a
| ninety foot high stack, which ins stantly
fell.
ON the 18th, by the explosion of a loco
| motive boiler near Greenwood, Pa, three
men we-e badly injured.
On the 17th Calvin w. Rigg, the embez-
zling school tax collector, of Coshocton,
Pa, was sentenced to eighteen months in
jail.
THE seventh victim Of the recent boiler
explosion at West Chester, Pa, Edward
| Schofield, died on the 18th, after suffer- ng
untold agony.
On the night of the 18th Police Officer
John Wallace, of Allegheny City, Pa,
was fatally stabbed by some footpads who
were robbing lady on the street.
| AT Hamburg, N. Y, on the 18th, Mr..
| George Bauerly, aged seventy years, and
a cripple, and his bed-ridden wife, were
! burned to death in their residence. Their
remains were found when the fire was
subdued. The fire is supposed to have
! been caused by an explosion or upset
lamp.
| On the night of the 18th eight lives were
| lost in railroad accident on the Inter
| Colonial railroad at McIntosh's Cave, a
small fishing hamlet forty miles from
! Bathurst, Mass.
! AT Ravenna, o., on the 18th, James
Robinson, the third and last of the mur-
| derers Of Detective Hulligan, of Cleve-
| land, was found guilty of murder in the
first degree. The case was given to the
jury on the evening of the 18th.
Two well-dressed women who were
arrested in Cincinnati for stealing lot Of
gold chains from a jewelry store have
been identified by description as we'll
known shop-lifters of New York. The
stolen property, which they sent by ex-
press to New York, has been obtained
there and will be sent back to be used in
their trial.